Franco Manca pizzas debut across UK supermarkets November 1, 2022 Franco Manca pizzas will now be available to buy in supermarkets across the UK, allowing Brits to take home and cook their favourites.
David Grutman, the “King of Miami” gives us his take on hospitality October 28, 2022 David Grutman is a hospitality impresario behind a string of restaurants, hotels and nightclubs in Miami. As he takes part in the AMEX Shaping Insights podcast, we caught up with him to quiz him on the state of hospitality Tell us about yourself I’m originally from Naples, which is about two hours from Miami, so [...]
Exclusive: Deliveroo injects £2.5m into subsidising cost of eco-friendly packaging for small restaurants October 28, 2022 Deliveroo is pumping £2.5m into subsidising the cost of eco-friendly packaging for its smaller restaurant partners. Restaurant partners will receive a 50 per cent subsidy on the cost of sustainable packaging, the delivery firm told CityA.M. on Friday. The scheme will cover any item that is home-compostable or made from recyclable paper, cardboard, or recycled [...]
Exclusive: Seven Dials Market boss says ‘Brexit means we are short-staffed for every shift, every day’ October 27, 2022 Brexit has “absolutely screwed” the food industry after it “ripped away” its labour source, according to the boss behind the West End’s popular Seven Dials Market. Businesses at the food and drink destination are facing staff shortages “for every single shift, every single day,” Simon Mitchell, who heads the street food market operator Kerb, exclusively [...]
Best pasta in London, according to Pasta Envangelists October 27, 2022 Roberta D’Elia, head chef at Pasta Evangelists, shares her top five places to enjoy a bowl of pasta in the capital. The pasta bar in Harrods I may be slightly biased given this one is run by Pasta Evangelists but The Pasta Bar is the go-to for the most edifying fresh pasta experience in London, [...]
No, it’s not sci-fi. Robots really could help dig us out of our low productivity spiral October 25, 2022 Earlier this month, a robot named Ai-Da gave evidence to the House of Lords on the future of the creative industries. The members of the Lords Communications and Digital committee were fairly quite stumped. For all its weirdness, this episode proved a point: robots are among us. When thinking of robots, many of us imagine [...]
A Lord of the Rings pilgrimage to The Ribble Valley October 24, 2022 THE WEEKEND: I’m a lifelong fan of the great JRR Tolkien, and so to mark the release of the new Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power series dropping on Amazon, I’m visiting the village of Hurst in Lancashire’s rural Ribble Valley, which has a circular 9 km trail in honour of the Lord of [...]
Portland Oregon is the best of the West Coast – and a new direct flight makes visiting easy October 24, 2022 Portland Oregon is your new West Coast city visit, thanks to a new direct British Airways flight route
Exclusive: How London’s prime property financing space weathered Brexit, Covid and market mayhem October 24, 2022 Prime property finance is experiencing a boom in demand but battling falling prices. Yet, as the most resilient part of the market shows it can insulate itself from Brexit, the pandemic and current financial woes. While not immune from external shocks, its ability to recover faster than the rest of the industry makes it a [...]
Spam sales up nearly 40 per cent at Waitrose as price hikes bite October 20, 2022 BRITAIN’S DISCOUNT retailers are set for a winter windfall – with even Waitrose shoppers turning to spam and fish heads as the cost of living crisis bites. The sales of both have risen more than a third at the high-end supermarket over the past year, the firm confirmed overnight. Analysts reckon budget grocers like Aldi [...]